Another part of the Chieftain’s Hatch videos, this time about the Soviet SU-100 tank destroyer.

Source: http://worldoftanks.kr/ko/news/pc-browser/9/armyfest-2014/ (thanks to Daigensui for translating)

Hello everyone,

1st of October in South Korea is the Armed Forces Day – basically, the Korean military sites (some of course) are open to public. This time, Wargaming participated in one such event with a stand with PC’s and all that. Additionally, Korean players could also check photographs and artefacts from the Korean War era, as well as modern battle tanks and the equipment of Korean army. And so, the smallest Wargaming cluster (Korea WoT peaks are 4000-6000 players) is doing its best to “bond” with the army of South Korea, to show the players the history of their armed forces.

Regarding the opinion on Korean community from a player, who actually plays there (Daigensui): “There are lot of problems, from occasional mistakes on WG KR’s part, constant trolling from the bigger communities like Ilbe and DC Inside, rage against bad players (heated more than other places from the competitive atmosphere), and stupid stalking and false accusations of people they don’t like, but all in all it is still a pretty tight community. While WoT in Korea might not be bigger than in Italy, the enthusiasm shown is certainly one of, if not the, best of all WoT servers. I hope that WoT still maintains a position as the one casual military game anyone can fall back on, in Korea and elsewhere.”

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand… there was also this – that’s what I call advertising done right:

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Hello everyone,

so, I guess that at this point, you’ve already seen the “IS-6″ video from yesterday. If not, here it is.

Well, where to start… I mean, the video is terrible. For one, it was made on Russian server, that’s why the IS-6 in it has Russian flag decals and Russian inscriptions saying “Soviet Arctic Explorer” and “Russians don’t give up!” – I am kinda surprised they didn’t put “For Stalin!” or “For Soviet Ukraine!” on them, I am sure that would be recieved well on RU server.

The video depicts a “heroic defense” of one IS-6 against several enemy tanks, who are utter retards and can’t get rid of a single IS-6 in the open and so they rush it one by one. The vehicle is depicted as a “killer”, when in reality, despite being noob friendly thanks to its thick armor, the 122mm D-25 is more like mediocre for its tier. I mean, it’s a good tank, but not an OP death machine. The entire comedy is complemented by the awkward “radio chatter”, which is actually quite literally translated from the Russian version and sounds just weird.

Actually, it’s this chatter I mind about the entire stupid video the most.

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Hello everyone,

so, today, the M24 Chaffee Sport was removed from the hangar. In case you are looking for the equipment that was on it, it’s in the depot. Of course, with Wargaming being Wargaming, we can’t have it without a fail now, can we?

The crew was removed from the vehicle as well, but it was not retrained to the original Chaffee, as originally promised. The same issue happened on Russian server. The official answer was that the crew will be retrained later on and that the players are supposed to be patient. So, if you want that Chaffee crew on your regular Chaffee, don’t spend your credits or gold just yet and wait a bit, you’ll get it retrained for free.

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3548928.html

And here, we have a picture of Sherman Fury…

Ooops, it’s a regular E8 with Fury skin. If you want to drive your very own “Fury” (without actually buying it), here’s how you can do it:

- download the remodel here
- unpack the contents and copy them to res_mods/0.9.3/
- ?????
- profit!

Obviously it’s just a mod, so you will be the only person seeing the Fury skin, but still… it’s cool. Unless you are fed up with Furry everywhere like me.

Hello everyone,

in Russian archives, several new vehicles were discovered some time ago. This is one of them – the mighty Object 777 heavy tank. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, nothing was published of this monster other than it’s a heavy tank prototype from after the war and that it was to be armed with the 122mm M62 gun (ingame IS-8 top gun).

Wargaming has a complete set of data about this vehicle (unfortunately, they haven’t published anything yet) and unless it’s too OP, it’s possible we will see this tank in the game – almost certianly not as a regular vehicle, but possibly as a tier 10 reward or something. It would be a shame to leave it out, as it’s certainly one of the prettiest Soviet tanks I have ever seen.

The armor looks massive and well-sloped though, so who knows, maybe it’s too powerful for WoT. In that case – AW, here’s your tier 1 :)

Hello everyone,

sometimes, but extremely rarely, an e-mail reaches me and after I read it, I have absolutely no words. I have to close it, open it again and make sure I did read it correctly. In this case, I… well… I’ll just translate it. Incredible.

As you can see, it’s a screenshot from a support ticket. Don’t ask me how I got it.

Patrik343: “Hello, on my way home, I found a credit card lying on the street. I took it and I tried to pay in World of Tanks shop with it. And now, my account is blocked because of stupid 650 CZK. I hope it will get solved soon, my account is blocked and I want to play, I am nervous about it.”

Support: “Hello, thank you for contacting us. Using a credit card without its owner’s permission is a crime in most of the countries. What happened here was that the card owner contacted the bank and requested the cancelling of all operations, that happened after the card was lost. In order to have the access to your account restored, you will have to purchase again the goods, the payment of which was cancelled. The goods were as follows:

1000 gold
1000 gold
SU-85i
500 gold

The total sum is 21,04 EUR. It is possible to purchase a larger bundle (for example 10000 gold), after the payment goes through, the value of the gold owed will be removed from total gold sum and after that, the account will get unblocked. Contact us further after the payment of at least 21,04 EUR goes through, we can continue after that.”

I mean… wow. How dumb and nasty do you have to be to do this kind of stuff? This fucker should get his account permabanned and he should be reported to police for credit card fraud. Incredible.

Hello everyone,

a few days ago, a screenshot of the upcoming tier 9 reward medium tank T 55A armor appeared, as such:

Notice two things. One, the armor around the mantlet is actually 80mm. Secondly, some sort of weird spaced armor on the top. It was posted on Russian forums, where Storm reacted that this was caused by – and I quote “shitty viewer”:

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Hello everyone,

a short video I made about the recently ended Chaffee racing fun mode, demonstrating the “no drift” exploit/cheat/whatever that is.

Hello everyone,

today in the morning, the Chaffee was supposed to be removed from the garage, as the racing event ended. It was not (even though the missions allowing you to make money on it did in fact end), just checked – it’s still in my garage. You cannot use it either, it just throws an error.

The reason why that happen I suspect was the fail on RU server from today, where the crew was not retrained to regular Chaffee (as initially promised). I also suspect they have to fix this before the tank gets actually removed. According to RU forums, the RU server crews will be fixed later on, so I guess they are trying to avoid this situation.